{"id":25340,"date":"2016-05-31T00:19:56","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T07:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/?p=25340"},"modified":"2016-05-31T00:19:56","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T07:19:56","slug":"zob-ahan-defeats-esteghlal-tehran-to-win-hazfi-cup-title-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/2016\/05\/31\/zob-ahan-defeats-esteghlal-tehran-to-win-hazfi-cup-title-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Zob Ahan defeats Esteghlal Tehran to win Hazfi Cup title [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KHORRAMSHAHR, <strong>Zob Ahan of Isfahan football team claimed Iran\u2019s Hazfi Cup on Sunday for the second time in a row.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Zob Ahan beat Esteghlal in penalty shootout 5-4 in Khorramshahr\u2019s Nafto Gaz Stadium after the game finished 1-1 after 120 minutes<\/p>\n<p>Danial Esmaeilifar\u2019s strike deflected into the net in the 20th minute but Omid Ebrahimi scored from the penalty spot in the 56th minute to equalize the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am so happy with the way my players played against Esteghlal. Zob Ahan players were tired since they had played Al Ain twice in a week. I think we deserve to win the title,\u201d Zob Ahan coach Yahya Golmohammadi said in the post-match news conference.<\/p>\n<p>Zob Ahan won Hazfi Cup for the fourth time.<\/p>\n<p>The Isfahan based team had defeated Naft Tehran last year.<\/p>\n<p>Esteghlal tops the table with six cups and its arch rival Persepolis has won the cup five times.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Kd7iwPKu-hU\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Kd7iwPKu-hU<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran Times &#8211; KHORRAMSHAHR, Zob Ahan of Isfahan football team claimed Iran\u2019s Hazfi Cup on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26307,"featured_media":25341,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,136,135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c47-featured-news","category-iran-first-division","category-irans-hazfi-cup"],"views":2473,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.persianfootball.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}